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The 2021 infrastructure bill is throwing more than $42 billion at America’s mediocre broadband networks. And while a lot of that money will be put to good use shoring up fiber, a lot of it is…

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[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is in addition to the last two times we gave them billions to build out internet infrastructure.

[–] qwertyqwertyqwerty@lemmy.one 9 points 2 years ago

It worked out so well last time, it's like sunk-cost fallacy at this point. Might as well be a Nigerian scammer.

[–] Anise@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 2 years ago

The response from the states should be: Don't want to provide service? Fine, we will fill in the gaps with county-owned internet service.

[–] okamiueru@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Is this /technology, or /laststagecapitalism?

[–] BrikoX@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 years ago

They do intersect a lot.